"I used to be the handsomest man in Rome. Now I'm just another ruin," quipped writer Gore Vidal when he was 50. Or characterizing himself, he once said, "I am exactly as I appear. There is no warm, ...

(Reuters) - Writer Gore Vidal, whose acerbic observations on politics, sex and American culture in novels and essays made him one of the best-known American authors of his generation, died on Tuesday ...

How many people under age 50 even recognize the name Gore Vidal? No, he’s not television’s onetime horror host Count Gore De Vol. Possibly some millennials will recall a few of Vidal’s more famous ...

Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal, Doubleday Books, 480 pages. $35. A chance meeting in Italy in the mid-1980s soon blossomed into a friendship that survived despite Vidal’s notorious prickliness ...

Gore Vidal author and playwright died Tuesday at his Hollywood Hills home from complications due to pneumonia. Bookworm host Michael Silverblatt writes: When I learned of the death of Gore Vidal last ...

Try this short quiz on writers who had very public spats with each other. By J. D. Biersdorfer On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to one another in code, ...

Best of Enemies premieres on PBS’s Independent Lens on Monday, October 3, 2016. This excerpt from the Independent Lens film Best of Enemies takes a closer look at Gore Vidal, iconoclastic writer and ...

This essay traces the topic of spirituality in Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar and in selected issues of ONE magazine. Differences between City's 1948 and 1965 versions reveal the latter to ...

REMEMBRANCE: Burr Steers on the private life of the novelist, screenwriter and provocateur. By As told to Gregg Kilday "As I looked back over my life, I realized that I enjoyed nothing -- not art, not ...

"Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964 to 2006," by Gore Vidal. Doubleday, 288 pages, $26 hardcover. This meandering but soulful sequel to Vidal's pointillist 1995 memoir, "Palimpset," isn't half ...